Sentences with phrase «based tea party group»

A Wichita - based tea party group is attempting to revive a Kansas bill that would allow religious - based discrimination against gays, with the group saying the bill is as much a protection of LGBT rights as it is a protection of the rights of Christian... Read

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Religion News Service: Nuns on the Bus meet Tea Party protests in Ohio The «Nuns on the Bus» have been a consistently popular and effective faith - based tool for religious progressives this campaign season, but on Monday a group of demonstrators apparently organized by a local Tea Party affiliate met the nuns at a stop in Marietta, Ohio, and provided a far different welcome than the sisters usually receive.

Smith is backed by some tea party groups and by the DC - based anti-tax group Club for Growth, which has a history of backing conservative primary challengers.

Already, deep fissures are emerging between, on one side, a base of ideological voters and lawmakers with strong ties to powerful tea - party groups and super PACs funded by the fossil - fuel industry who see climate change as a false threat concocted by liberals to justify greater government control; and on the other side, a quiet group of moderates, younger voters, and leading conservative intellectuals who fear that if Republicans continue to dismiss or deny climate change, the party will become irrelevant.

In addition to tea party congressional Republicans, opposition to continuing the wind credit comes from the American Energy Alliance, a Washington, D.C. - based industry group linked to petrochemical interests that promote expanded drilling for fossil fuels, including in the protected Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, and approval of the proposed XL pipeline to bring Canadian tar sands oil to refineries in Texas and the Gulf Coast.